# kururu
## Guaraní
### Etymology

Cognate with Old Tupi kururu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ku.ɾuˈɾu]
* Rhymes: -u
* Hyphenation: ku‧ru‧ru

### Noun

kururu (plural kururukuéra)
* frog, toad

## Old Tupi
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kururu.
Cognate with Guaraní kururu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ku.ɾuˈɾu]
* Rhymes: -u
* Hyphenation: ku‧ru‧ru

### Noun

kururu (unpossessable)
* true toad. Further details are uncertain. Possibilities include:
** c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. L$^{ço}$” (chapter XLIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ], Niterói, page 71, lines 483–493; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 133:Anjo. Baepe que tuj opica? / Andira ruâpee. / Panama, coipo guaiquica? / enero, cururu açica? / eri, carigueya e. / Ejori / baenẽ baepoxi / bora, miaratacaca / ceboi, tamarutaca ſarau[aya] — Xepoeirai, xeropecij / auye, teume xemombaca.[Anjo: Mba'epe ké tuî opyka? / Andyrá ruãpe é, / panama koîpó gûaîkuíka? / Ené, rõ, kururuasyka? / Erĩ, sarigûeîa é. / Eîori / mba'enem, mba'epoxy, / mborá, miaratakaka, / sebo'i, tamarutaka. Saraûaîa: Xe pûeraî, xe ropesyî. / Aûîé, teumẽ xe mombaka.]Angel: What is here, lying still? Is it a bat, a butterfly or a short-tailed opossum? Maybe a crippled toad? Ay opossum! Come, you stinky, nasty thing, stingless bee, skunk, worm, mantis shrimp. Saraûaîa: I'm tired, I'm sleepy. Enough! Don't wake me up!
** Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter CXV, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 266: “cururús [kururu]”
** Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XLI, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 253v: “Courourou [Kururu]”
** anonymous author (1622) “Sapo”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 113: “Cururu [Kururu]”
** Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Medicina Brasiliensi, book 3, chapter 1 (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 46: “Cururu [Kururu]”
** cane toad (Rhinella marina)
** Rhinella diptycha

#### Derived terms

* kururuapé
* Kururupeba

#### Descendants

* Nheengatu: kururú
* Portuguese: → cururu, ⇒ sapo-cururu

### References

* Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kururu”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 246, column 1
* Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 274

## Polish
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuˈru.ru/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uru
* Syllabification: ku‧ru‧ru

### Noun

kururu n (indeclinable)
* cane toad
    Synonyms: aga, ropucha olbrzymia

### Further reading

* kururu in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* kururu in PWN's encyclopedia